Re: Websites for preview of 2009 Wrangler?

XS11E wrote:
> Will Honea <whonea@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> XS11E wrote:
> 
>>> Federal tax began in 1932 apparently.
>> I must be thinking of the tax Eisenhower got through to pay for
>> the interstate system.  Am I engaging in selective memory, or did
>> $0.25 to $0.30 gas persist into the later '60s?
> 
> I really don't know and I'm too lazy to look it up.  I do know the tax 
> on gas has increased over and over and over...
> 
>> Time for liars, damned liars and statistics:  determine the
>> marginal profit per gallon for both the major oil companies and
>> retail sellers now and in 1965 - 
> 
> Retail sellers = unchanged.  We took the wholesale price of gas and 
> added our markup, usually 3 cents/gallon on regular, and that's been 
> the profit from the 1980s through as recent as I was in the business or 
> knew anyone who was.

Where I worked it was 4c, with a 2c discount for any local resident or 
anyone with a gate pass to the local missile base.     Essentially paid 
the rent while the small repairs, oil, other accessories fed the folks 
who worked there.